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Trio of research hubs to poke digital benefits
News The universities of Aberdeen, Newcastle and Nottingham have been selected as the trio of tech hubs charged with investigating issues including digital exclusion, healthcare and transport delivery, and... [29 Apr 2009]
Thin clients switch on digitally excluded
Case Study A project to tackle digital exclusion in socially deprived regions of Merseyside has brought free plug-and-play internet access to hundreds of homes with children of school age. Digital... [17 Jun 2008]
Web 2.0 and the public sector
Comment There must also be concerns about digital exclusion. The rise of social networking has the potential to exacerbate the exclusion of disadvantaged groups from a key forum of public debate... [11 Oct 2007]
Sunderland scoops £3.5m digital inclusion prize
News The competition aimed to encourage UK councils to think about the issues of social and digital exclusion. A project to help to reduce social exclusion through the use of technology has... [14 Mar 2007]
Cities rise to the £7m digital challenge
Case Study The Digital Challenge initiative is a competition aimed at UK councils to encourage them to think about issues of social and digital exclusion within communities. Ten councils are... [01 Oct 2006]
Web accessibility to be mandatory in Europe?
News The EC has also committed to putting new measures in place to halve exclusion rates in skills and digital literacy by 2010. The 25 EC member states and nine accession countries have all signed up to a... [14 Jun 2006]
10,000 silver surfers flood onto the web
News An Age Concern spokesman explained: "We are looking at the issue of digital exclusion which is quite a concern to us. The aim of the initiative - organised by Age Concern - is to narrow the yawning... [25 May 2006]
Intel's Barrett: UK needs more silver surfers
News Age Concern's membership director, Ailsa Ogilvie, added: "Digital exclusion is a type of social exclusion that is only going to increase unless we do something about it. Older people... [09 Mar 2006]
PCs too pricey for the poor
News According to research from the Social Exclusion Unit (SEU), which is part of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 77 per cent of respondents said current trends in IT would widen the digital divide... [01 Sep 2005]
Internet 'have-nots' targeted by digital divide initiative
News Unless we tackle that problem now there is a real risk that the internet, instead of reducing social exclusion, will actually deepen and entrench it," she said. The UK government has kicked off a campaign to encourage... [13 May 2003]
Blair accused of creating a 'digital underclass'
News The research institute accuses the UK government of 'short-termism' - ignoring the problems associated with information exclusion in favour of the easier but less challenging problem of computer access. [12 Apr 2001]
Ebusiness Despatches: René Carayol on diversity in business
Comment So social exclusion is a danger. I believe passionately that the digital economy will change the whole landscape - let's not exclude anyone. The connected e-world of the 21st century presents us all with... [13 Dec 2000]
Blair promises 'ubiquitous Internet' by 2005
News He insisted that UK-wide Internet access it will improve the UK's competitiveness and reduce the effects of social exclusion. He said: "It's likely the Internet will in the future be as ubiquitous and as normal as... [07 Mar 2000]
DTI launches inquiry into social impact of ecommerce
News The inquiry will look at the impact ecommerce is likely to have on energy use, the environment, planning, transport and social exclusion. Called "Digital Futures", the inquiry is backed by three... [01 Feb 2000]
A domain name for Europe
Comment But this will simply create confusion - or even exclusion, if the EU becomes politically strident and refuses East European businesses from registering. But creating a pan-European, online marketplace will only... [08 Dec 1999]
